Polignano a Mare within the Area of Puglia. Italy.
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United Airways‘ summer time 2026 worldwide journey plan is out, and smaller European cities are in.
Beginning April 30, United plans to fly from its hub at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in New Jersey to Break up on the Croatian coast — its second vacation spot within the nation. A day later the service is launching Newark to Bari within the widespread Puglia area of southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea.
Might 22 is the scheduled launch of a nonstop from Newark to Santiago de Compostela, within the Galicia area of Spain, the tip of the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage path.
The additions present United’s newest wager on high-spending vacationers on the lookout for journeys past main European capitals, and the possibility to fly to these locations nonstop, with out connecting in massive hubs. The service is vying with Delta for big-spending vacationers. A lot of the new routes are operated with airplanes outfitted with its ever-growing, lie-flat Polaris cabin.
United executives have lengthy touted its huge worldwide community as a driver for buyer loyalty and sign-ups for profitable journey rewards bank cards.
Delta, for its half, has used an analogous technique and final month introduced new nonstops to Malta and the Italian area of Sardinia for subsequent summer time.
United’s different additions embody a Might 21 debut from its Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport hub to Reykjavik, Iceland, and a every day, year-round nonstop from Newark to Seoul, South Korea, beginning subsequent September. It’ll additionally start a Newark to Glasgow, Scotland, flight on Might 8, on a Boeing 737 Max 8.
Patrick Quayle, United’s senior vp of worldwide community planning and alliances, stated that locations the service introduced final 12 months, together with Nuuk, Greenland, will stay within the airline’s schedule for 2026.
United can be planning so as to add a 3rd every day flight to Tel Aviv, Israel, from Newark beginning March 28.
Majestic panorama of Godafoss waterfall flowing with colourful sundown sky and male vacationer standing on the cliff on Skjalfandafljot river in summer time at Northern Iceland.
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